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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1896
Page
7
A calendar from N W Ayer & Son in Philadelphia is praised for its large date figures and useful flap reading matter with delivery included. The piece also advertises The Gold Miner subscription, Silver King Barley and Silver Mine Oats yields, Salzer's catalogue offers, and Salter Seed samples.
A London area crafts firm fakes antique pieces for the American market by using deal wood, cement fillings, shallow false bottoms with lead, and carved motifs from old bibles. Chimneying to deceive buyers, they even label chairs as having belonged to Elizabeth I or Cromwell, while some items are sold with dramatic “historic” claims.
In Benton Kentucky a local option election assigned the emblem of the liquor supporters a jug and the anti license forces an open Holy Bible. Voters chose the Bible emblem and the town went very dry as a result.
The Michigantown pig case ends with Hillis awarded the hog and $1.01 damages in circuit court after a justice court judgment for the town. The town must pay costs over $100 for false imprisonment of the pig, which was impounded as a vagrant.
The Rudelsberg statue of Otto von Bismarck in student costume is finished. The sculptor recalls the iron chancellor correcting portraits to show a pronounced lower lip signaling constancy, not obstinacy, and notes he marked the clay with v. B. after modeling.
Two Chinese girls at the University of Michigan gain prominence in student life. Miss Shie is elected secretary of the senior class. The two plan to return to China to support 93 Christian medical missionaries.
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